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We just added an AdPlugg WordPress ad block. Once you update to the latest version of the AdPlugg plugin (1.11.0 or higher), you can simply add the AdPlugg block while using the WordPress/Gutenberg block editor.

You can read more about it on our blog here: https://www.adplugg.com/blog/wordpress-ad-block

Yes, you can use the Custom HTML block and an AdPlugg Ad Tag. Just click the Get Tag button from your Ads, or Zones list in AdPlugg and then paste the Ad Tag into a Custom HTML block.

An AdPlugg Gutenberg block would be a nice addition to the plugin. It’s on the list but I’ll see if I can get it bumped up.

Thanks!

Hi there, I saw the mention and can address how AdPlugg handles it.

AdPlugg allows your pages to be served out of cache by default. With AdPlugg, all of the ads are retrieved and rendered asynchronously in the browser using JavaScript. This makes it so that you can easily serve your pages out of cache while still applying logic and rotation to your ads.

Take a look at any large site: these days all their ads are being served using JavaScript and an ad server – caching and site performance are a couple of the big reasons why.

I haven’t seen ESI used for ads before but it should be possible. Serving the ads via JavaScript or using an iFrame are a lot more common solutions and would likely be a lot easier to implement.

In order to get your AdPlugg ads to rotate, you create a Placement with the Content Order set to Random. You then target your ads to the Placement and the Placement to your (“interior”) Zone. The Placement applies rules (scheduling, rotation, etc) to the ads before they make it into the Zone. Check out these recipes in the AdPlugg Cookbook for detailed instructions:

https://www.adplugg.com/support/cookbook/ad-rotator

Good ideas. We’ll work to get something in place.

Just updating here for the benefit of others. The problem ended up being that the ads were being blocked by an ad blocker that was running in the user’s browser. We are working to come up with solutions or warnings for this scenario. In the meantime, please ensure that you don’t have any ad blockers running when using AdPlugg.

This issue was resolved.

Hi Adam,

As of around 12:30 AM EST, Amazon is reporting their systems at 100%. We’ve tested everything on our end and everything seems to be working again.

I took a look at your AdPlugg account and it looks like your ad images failed to upload. This was one of the most common problems with the outage. If you could, please edit your ads and re-upload images for them. Once they are uploaded, you will be able to see the image next to each ad in your ads list. They should at that point be able to be served to your site.

Sorry again for the trouble and thank you for your understanding.

Best,

Collin

Hi Adam,

I’m really sorry for the trouble. AdPlugg uses Amazon AWS for a good portion of our hosting. Amazon AWS had major outages today impacting thousands of sites (including AdPlugg, Instagram, Twitter, Slack, Buzzfeed and many, many more). You can read more about the issues here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/

AdPlugg was only partially affected (as you saw). While existing ads have been running fine, creation of new ads, emails, forums and other parts of our service have been affected. As of this writing, Amazon has a lot of it back up and working and it looks like everything should be fixed within the next several hours. I’ll post back once everything is back up and running.

Millions of tech people were affected, so you are not alone. Not sure if it would help but you could forward the article from USA today to your boss. CBS, Los Angeles Times, and many other news outlets have also reported on the massive outage.

We are going to work to see if we can put systems in place to prevent future disruptions from these types of issues.

Sorry Again,

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg

Hi, sorry for the difficulties and delayed response. Yes, AdPlugg does work and is for real :). It’s currently serving millions of ads per day to thousands of sites and we have no known outages or issues.

Likely it is just an issue with your configuration. It’s hard to guess what it might be without taking a look at your site and account. If you could, please use our contact form and send us your AdPlugg username and the url of the website/page where you are trying to get ads to show. We can then take a look and will reply to you with what needs to be changed in order to get things working.

If you’d rather troubleshoot on your own, I’d recommend starting with a very simple configuration. To do that, remove the use of Zones, Placements, the Zone machine code, etc from the picture and just get serving a single ad to work. Once you’ve got that going, you can add complexity from there. This recipe from our cookbook shows you how to get going with a very simple configuration: Creating a Single Ad Using the WordPress Ad Plugin

If you’d like to see a couple of examples of AdPlugg working, you can check out the AdPlugg Blog or the AdPlugg Demo sites (hint: if either of those sites don’t show ads, it may be that you have an ad blocker enabled, you’ll need to disable the ad blocker in order to get AdPlugg to work).

Please reply here or use our Contact form with any other questions, findings, etc.

Best,

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg

Awesome, glad to hear that you are liking AdPlugg! Please let us know if you ever need any help with anything.

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for letting us know. We just fixed it. Please upgrade to version 1.4.4 for the fix.

Thanks for using AdPlugg!

Collin

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg

Hi Magnus,

If you know how to use WordPress hooks, @presstigers suggestion is the cleanest.

If you want to go the theming route these two solutions should work:

Ad After the Search Filter

To place an ad right after the search filter, you can use the job-filters.php template file instead of the content-job-listing-list-view.php. Again you would just drop the ad tag in after the closing </article> tag.

Ad between first two Jobs

If you want the ad between the first two ads you could set a count variable (I wasn’t able to find a counter that was available from SJB, so in this snippet, I’ve created my own). This would go in the same place as I originally suggested (approx line 99 content-job-listing-list-view.php) but in this scenario, I’ve set a counter and wrapped the ad tag in an if statement.

<?php 
global $my_job_counter;
$my_job_counter = ( isset( $my_job_counter) ) ? $my_job_counter + 1 : 1;
if( $my_job_counter == 1 ) { ?>
    <div class="adplugg-tag" data-adplugg-zone="my_in_btn_jobs_zone"></div>
<?php } ?>

You could employ a similar counter type solution using hooks as well.

Best,

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg

Hi @maggifreddy,

To drop AdPlugg ads between the job listings, you can make a custom template file for your theme that customizes the appearance of the Simple Job Boards plugin. Then you drop an AdPlugg Ad Tag into the custom theme file.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Copy the wp-content/plugins/simple-job-board/templates/content-job-listing-list-view.php file to wp-content/themes/<yourtheme>/simple_job_board/content-job-listing-list-view.php. Simple Job Boards will see this file and use it instead of the default one.
2. Drop an AdPlugg ad tag right after the closing </article> tag (should be near line 99 of the template file). See the link above for more info about ad tags and how they work.

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg

Hi @sassyde,

I’m sorry that you had a bad experience. If there’s any way to, I’d like to try to fix things.

I’ve reviewed our plugin listing and website and it seems (to me anyway) that we were upfront about the free version only supporting image banners. Is there somewhere in our plugin listing or website where you think we could make it more clear?

We have thousands of users who use AdPlugg’s free version to manage, serve and track their ads. What formats were you specifically looking to serve? What else do you think needs to be added to the Free version to have it be useful for yourself and others looking for an ad system.

Please reach out to us using our contact form or respond here with any ideas that you have for how we could make the service or plugin better.

If you’d like to give it a second chance, we would love to have you as a free or pro user. Our Pro version has a 30 day money back guarantee, please give it a try for a month. We’d love your feedback regarding it as well.

It would also be great if you could update your rating and review with additional info regarding your experience.

Thanks,

Collin Krawll
AdPlugg